Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in...
Ok,
it's half an hour to my next lecture and I've got some time to rant.
I guess I'm continuing from my last post on Digital information. The digital era that is upon us has deep impacts on our culture and history. Should all this digital information roam free in cyberspace? Shouldn't there be "gatekeepers" to regulate what our children are seeing and hearing, like there are librarians to make sure children don't get their hands on Pornography in our public libraries? Should we have the uncensored "Freedom" to put whatever we want into the digital space to be seen by the next generations. For obvious reasons not all human history is passed on to the next generation. Only a small percentage of the whole is selected and passed on.
"but in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all it's triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumours about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate.
It will slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient-half truths. Just look at the juxtapositions of morality around you. Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing
"Be nice to other people"
"But beat out the competition"
"You're special" "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."
But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...
People exercise their "Freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.
Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growning cesspool of society at large.
The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No-one is invalidated, but nobody is right.
Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth".
The individual is supposed to be weak. But far from powerless...a single person has the potential to ruin the world, and the age of digitized communication has given even more power to the individual. Too much power for an immature species."
Something to think about...
Caleb (Anime Geek)
PS: props to those who know the people who made this speech =)
it's half an hour to my next lecture and I've got some time to rant.
I guess I'm continuing from my last post on Digital information. The digital era that is upon us has deep impacts on our culture and history. Should all this digital information roam free in cyberspace? Shouldn't there be "gatekeepers" to regulate what our children are seeing and hearing, like there are librarians to make sure children don't get their hands on Pornography in our public libraries? Should we have the uncensored "Freedom" to put whatever we want into the digital space to be seen by the next generations. For obvious reasons not all human history is passed on to the next generation. Only a small percentage of the whole is selected and passed on.
"but in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all it's triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumours about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate.
It will slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient-half truths. Just look at the juxtapositions of morality around you. Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing
"Be nice to other people"
"But beat out the competition"
"You're special" "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."
But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...
People exercise their "Freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.
Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growning cesspool of society at large.
The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No-one is invalidated, but nobody is right.
Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth".
The individual is supposed to be weak. But far from powerless...a single person has the potential to ruin the world, and the age of digitized communication has given even more power to the individual. Too much power for an immature species."
Something to think about...
Caleb (Anime Geek)
PS: props to those who know the people who made this speech =)
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